the spirit and purpose of Jesus
which has been the supreme force for the uplifting of humanity.

Christianity has passed through too many changes, and it has found too
many interpretations possible, to fear the time to come. Thoroughgoing
reconstruction in every item of theology and in every detail of polity
there may be, yet shall the Christian life go on--the life which finds
its deepest utterance in the words of Christ, "Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thyself"; the life which
expresses its profoundest faith in the words Christ taught it to pray,
"Our Father"; the life which finds its highest rule of conduct in the
words of its first and greatest interpreter, "Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus our Lord."

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Detailed bibliographies accompany the separate articles
on subjects connected with the Christian religion and Church. In the
following list a selection is given of books on the wider and general
subject:--

_Extent and Growth._--D. Dorchester, _The Problem of Religious
Progress_ (revised ed., 1894); S. Gulick, _The Growth of the Kingdom
of God_ (1895); James S. Dennis, _Christian Missions and Social
Progress_ (1906).

_Prophets of Israel._--Rudolf Smend, _Lehrbuch der alttestamentlichen
Religionsgeschichte_ (2nd ed., 1899); A.B. Davidson, _Old Testament
Prophecy_ (1903); Karl Budde, _Religion of Israel to the Exile_
(1899); W. Robertson Smith, _The Prophets of Israel and their Place in
History_ (1899); A.F. Kirkpatrick, _Doctrine of the Prophets_ (3rd
ed., 1901); Beruk Duhm, _Die Theologie der Propheten_ (1875).

_Judaism._--Emil Schuerer, _History of the Jewish People in the Time of
Jesus Christ_ (Eng. trans., Edinburgh, 1890); C.G. Montefiore,
_Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the
Religion of the Ancient Hebrews_ (2nd ed., 1893); W. Bousset, _Die
Religion des Judentums im neutestamentlichen Zeitalter_ (2nd ed.,
1906).

_The Life and Teaching of Jesus._--Hans Heinrich Wendt, _The Teaching
of Jesus_ (1892), 2 vols.; Oskar Holtzmann, _The Life of Jesus_ (Eng.
trans., 1904); Paul Wernle, _Beginnings of Christianity_, 2 vols.
(1903-1904); T. Crawford Burkitt, _The Gospel History and its
Transmission_ (1906).

_The Beginnings of Christianity._--Ernst von Dobschuetz, _Christian
Life in the Primitive Church_ (Eng. trans., 1904); A.C. McGiffert,
_The A